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Patience Panties & Deflated Balloons
Looks like I'm putting on my patience panties yet again this cycle, as today's lining check for our upcoming FET was less than stellar @ 7.4 mm. Someone que the deflating balloon to whiz across the...
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Happy Uterus @ 8 mm... FET is a Go!
My uterus is back to being on my good side. We had our lining check y'day, and it improved to 8 mm. I was using every holistic trick in the uterus playbook to help it along, but I didn't expect it to...
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Infertility Induced Psychosis...Praying for Peace
I think I've found of a new diagnosis for the DSM (the book used to code mental diagnoses). It is called "infertility induced psychosis" and I think I have it! I did not know it was possible to...
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Fertile Turtles & Hatching Embryos
Today's embryo transfer couldn't have gone any better. Before we left, I sat with my husband, held his hand tightly, and said a prayer. I am a cornball and wrote it ahead of time, because I didn't want...
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Pregnancy Loss #3 :(
Today we received word that I am "barely pregnant", and not for long. Blood test revealed:hCG= 6progesterone= 8estrogen= 64Looks like we can assume this will be our third pregnancy loss. I guess when...
View ArticlehCG is Outta Here; Onto Hysteroscopy & FET #3
Lots of good news today. First and foremost, my hCG is already back down to zero. I was obviously just paranoid about this being anything other than a very early miscarriage. Notice, I don't use the...
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Doctors, Insurance, and Surgery Oh My: Hysteroscopy & Laparoscopy Done!
The past 5 days have been a whirlwind of doctors, nurses, surgery coordinators, and insurance companies. In my last post, I talked about how excited we were to FINALLY obtain insurance coverage for a...
View ArticleWonderfully Made
Sometime in life I receive an unexpected message that I need to hear, in the most unlikely of ways. I must admit that 4 days ago as they wheeled me back to the OR for my surgeries, I felt so vulnerable...
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Post-Op Follow-Up with RE
We had our post-op appointment a week early and a little unexpectedly yesterday. Apparently, if you have a uterine septum removed, your uterus then becomes the proud recipient of a strange triangle...
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Reproductive Immunology Consult
In my never ending quest to figure out why we haven't been able to get pregnant easily, nor keep a pregnancy once it happens, I've done some personal research on RI (reproductive immunology) here and...
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Garage Sales, Pumpkin Candles & Football: Fall is Officially Here!
Is it just me, or is there something strangely thrilling about selling your old crap from the comfort of your own garage? Our neighborhood has two community-wide garage sales each year, and every year...
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Say What? Pregnancy Loss & Infertility Etiquette
What do we call a child who loses a parent? An orphanA woman who loses a spouse? A widowWhat about a couple who loses a child or pregnancy? There isn't a word to describe them.In case you didn't know,...
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Last Day of the Never-Ending Hormones: Onto Femara During our "Break"
I can do anything for one month, but I am so extremely ready to move forward from this ass dragging cycle of pregnancy loss, surgery, never ending spotting, and estrogen therapy. How can time (as in...
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Shoe Frenzy + Femara Follies: Everything's Lining Up!
I am just going to warn you now; This post is pretty darn exciting! If you've been reading a while, you already know how much I love "before and afters" as well as the occasional home...
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IUI #3 is done! All we need is one!
IUI #3 with Femara (Round #5) is officially in the books. Part of the reason we turned this "break from IVF" cycle into an IUI cycle is that it worked for us once before. Exactly one year ago, we...
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Reproductive Immunology Follow-Up: Eh, Not Sold
I wanted to give a follow-up to my previous blog about RI (reproductive immunology). After speaking to a doctor who practices it, some preliminary testing and extensive consideration, we've reached a...
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Reminders
No matter where I turn lately, I see these....reminders of how good we actually have it. A couple weeks ago, a friend was over and asked innocently, "So whatcha guys doing for the holidays?" You know...
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Neg. Sorry
I found out yesterday (via text of all ways) that this cycle didn't work. I did the blood test a day early (13dpIUI), because I began spotting on Friday (12dpIUI) and had a feeling that the only thing...
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Booty's Not Going to Like This
Today's RE appointment was 1 part baseline ultrasound & 2 parts complaint fest. I kinda hated to start off this cycle on a negative note, since I'm resolved to keep things all butterflies and...
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Opening the Door
Yesterday, I was telling my acupuncturist how at peace I feel with this last FET. Some people might look at this schedule of injections and appointments and think it's the last thing on earth they'd...
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